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By Logan Rogers on October 10, 2021 in News

Greetings!

New Shows!
Let’s get to it:

For Sale and for Members

Performances

October 29, 2004: Joe Frank in Performance – Chicago Art Institute, Chicago IL

November 21, 2004: Joe Frank in Performance – Great American Music Hall, San Francisco CA

September 12, 2007: “The Blue Room” – at the original Largo, Los Angeles CA

March 1, 2014: “Murdered by the Mind” – Steppenwolf, Chicago IL

Shows and Specials

Joe’s Last Show for KCRW: A Pledge Drive show with Joe LIVE announcing a new series coming in 2002

Pledge Drive: Aug 16, 1997: Joe is LIVE on air in this newly discovered Pledge Drive show

Joe Live on air: Piano Bar Theater: Before Joe was hired by KCRW, he sat in for a KCRW DJ friend

For Members Only

Feb 11, 1981: NPR Radio Experience: Joe Frank in Concert at the Shido Theater in Manhattan

2003: Joe on Third Coast Audio Festival Panel: Seeing Sound. Joe discussed his work.

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Thank you so much for your support,

Michal & Logan

December 5 2020

Exciting projects in the works

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Reviews of Joe’s Work

"You don't have to close your eyes to appreciate Joe Frank's dense audio universe cascading out of your radio. It helps, though, because there are so many layers - of sound, philosophy, of reality-coursing through his dramas... Come to think of it, after awhile, you won't want to close your eyes because in Frank's short stories for the radio, the tension and pathos are as enveloping as they are intriguing... "

The Washington Post

"Frank wanders deeply into the unconscious, producing Dionysian stories with a fairy-tale intensity whose effect is often funny, disturbing and deeply memorable."

Salon Magazine

"Frank [is] the apostle of radio noire... His free-form radio dramas... are sometimes moving, often funny, but always manage to confound the listeners' expectations. A maestro of verité, Frank exploits the power of radio..."

Rolling Stone

"I came upon Joe Frank's work by accident a number of years ago while driving to my home in the Napa Valley late at night. I couldn't believe the originality and sheer brilliance of what I was hearing. From that moment on I became a dedicated Joe Frank fan. Joe Frank's shows raise the most interesting and enduring questions in new and original ways and are consistently thought-provoking and very funny."

Francis Ford Coppola, filmmaker

"Radio's Prince of Darkness Rules the Freeways. [Frank is] alternately dark, bizarre and very funny - but always hard to turn off."

The Wall Street Journal

"[Joe Frank is] the most imaginative, literate monologist in radio today... If a microphone could capture the nether recesses of the modern psyche, it would sound like Frank's absurd comical excursions: Radio Vertigo."

The Village Voice

"[Frank] travels in the emotional landscape of Bergman and Fellini; there's a tension and sense of mystery halfway between Kafka and Chandler... and a satiric edge worthy of Firesign Theatre and Woody Allen... No one else in radio is doing what Frank does."

The Washington Post

"A strange, different, wondrously offbeat, frequently hilarious, altogether brilliant piece of work..There's never been anything quite like it...Joe Frank is an audio Fellini."

The Los Angeles Times

"Joe Frank is an invaluable warrior who stands in defense of our fears, our vanities and our forever-eroding sense of ourselves. He transforms the everyday banality of the human comedy into an inspired weirdness that feeds on pathos and irony, and feels a lot like revelation. Sartre would have called it nausea; Frank makes it art."

Spin Magazine

"[Joe Frank] is one of the great, original radio performers. He's created a sound and style for himself - a complete aesthetic that's entirely his own. I first heard him when I was 19 and it changed everything for me. His work demonstrated the intensity and emotion that the medium is capable of; ingenious…fantastic."

Ira Glass, This American Life